Big Spring refinery, we successfully completed the acquisition of the Krotz Springs, Louisiana refinery on July 3, 2008, increasing our crude oil refining capacity by 50\% to approximately 250,000 barrels per day ( "bpd").

Holly operates through its subsidiaries a 100,000 barrels per day ( "bpd") refinery located in Artesia, New Mexico, an 85,000 bpd refinery in Tulsa, Oklahoma and a 31,000 bpd refinery in Woods Cross, Utah.

Along the U.S. Gulf Coast's refinery row, 14 refineries, with the capacity to run 3.8 mln bpd which is 22 pct of total U.S. capacity, are now shut ahead of Hurricane Ike which is due to make landfall on the Texas Coast by Saturday.

"While performing the work at the Big Spring refinery, we successfully completed the acquisition of the Krotz Springs, Louisiana refinery on July 3, 2008, increasing our crude oil refining capacity by 50\% to approximately 250,000 barrels per day (" bpd ").

Total has recently spent $5 billion, including $1 billion for UTS Energy last year, to acquire undeveloped oil sands projects in Canada and Madagascar--even though bringing production up to a potential 250,000 bpd would take a decade and $20 billion.